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| 1961 : 19 |
A total of 19 Accidents and Losses are listed.
| Date | Aircraft Type | Tail No | Pilot/Crew | Photo | Unit | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 61 | Hunter F56 | BA-327 | Flt Lt Karan Sher Singh Kalsia + |  | 7 Sqn | flame out on t/o. Tried to force land .did not eje |
| 21 Jan 61 | Harvard T-6 | Flt Lt Bhinder Flt Lt Farokh Jehangir Mehta |  | 2 AFA | Swung left during a Roller take off - hit MES gate | |
| 08 Feb 61 | Mystere IVa | Flt Lt Vidya Ratan Bakshi + |  | 8 Sqn | In Memoriam | |
| 10 Mar 61 | Otter DHC-3 | IM-1728 | Fg Offr Gurbux Singh Hundal | 59 Sqn | Higher speed approach, crash landed to the extreme | |
| 12 Mar 61 | Harvard T-6 | Fg Offr Vaidyanathan Ganesan + Fg Offr Calathur Ram Mohan | 53 AAF Sqn | Malfunction Pilot chose to stay. An Indian Air For | ||
| 29 Mar 61 | Unidentified UI | | The aircraft was destroyed by fire. | |||
| 15 Apr 61 | Sikorsky S-62 | BZ-501 | Civ Pt W H Kimes | 104 HS | Cr during Trials | |
| 01 May 61 | Dakota C-47 | Flt Lt Balkrishan Desoares Fg Offr Yash Dev Chadha |  | 43 Sqn | Cr at Rhimkhim at 17010 Feet. Nav RK Gupta(5303). | |
| 07 May 61 | Dakota C-47 | Plt Offr Prem Prakash Deveshwar + Plt Offr Pradeep Kumar Biswas + |   | AFS Hydera | Cr Hyderabad to Jodhpur. Four crew killed includin | |
| 17 May 61 | Ouragan | IC-870 | Fg Offr Krishnaswamy Chandra Shekhar |  | 2 Sqn | Ej in flat spin over halwara |
| 11 Jun 61 | Sea Hawk | IN-161 | Lt A G Jog + | NAVY - INA | Cr in Sea off Brawdy, Isle of Wight | |
| 04 Aug 61 | Hunter F56 | Flt Lt Ranbir Singh Rana |  | Martin Baker List | ||
| 05 Aug 61 | Antonov An-12 | BL-536 | Flt Lt Rathindra Kumar Basu Flt Lt Tarun Kumar Dey | 44 Sqn | Nosegear collapse on landing. Ac burnt out | |
| 08 Sep 61 | Gnat | IE-1111 | Flt Lt Thomas Andrew Kenneth Taylor |  | 23 Sqn | Pilot Ejected ac cr - Eng flame out at Ambala |
| 04 Oct 61 | Ouragan | Fg Offr Basil Joseph Hickman + |  | 4 Sqn | In Memoriam | |
| 12 Oct 61 | Dakota C-47 | Flt Lt Madhusudhan Ray + Fg Offr Tathaiya Krishnaswamy + |  | 49 Sqn | AC cr at Barrackpore awarded KC. Nav Plt Offr AK H | |
| 25 Oct 61 | HT-2 | Flt Lt Sudhakar Vaman Khot + Sub Lt A K Verma + |  | AFFC | Irrecoverable spin. The COI concluded that the pup | |
| 25 Nov 61 | Auster | Capt Gurmit Singh + Capt S P Sachar+ | ARMY | In Memoriam. Crashed Saturday - both pilots killed | ||
| 27 Dec 61 | Otter DHC-3 | IM-1712 | Sqn Ldr Satindra Kumar Trehan + Flt Lt R P Singh | 41 Sqn | Cr after supply drop in Himachal |
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